Spinning-machine for chewing-tobacco.



No; 708,l72. Patented Sept. 2, I902. W. SCHERTIGER.

SPINNING MACHINE FOR CHEWING TOBACCO.

(Application meg Apr. 91, 1902.

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SPINNING NACIIINE FOB CHEWING TOBACCO.

(Application filed Apr. 81, 1902.)

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SPINNINGMACHINE FOR CHEWING TOBACCO.

(Applicltion fllad Apr. 91, 1909.)

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WILLIAM SOHERTIGER, OF AALBORG, DENMARK.

SPINNING-MACHINE FOR CHEWING-TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,1 72, dated September 2, 1 902. Application filed April 21, 1902. Serial No. 104,088. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Belt known that I, WILLIAM SGHERTIGER, engineer, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at Vesterbro 9-11, Aalborg, Denmark, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spinning-Machines for Ohewing-Tobacco, (for which I have applied for a patent in Denmark and Germany, which applications are dated October 11, 1901, and October 16, 1901,) of which the following is a specification.

The present invention refers to a spinningmachine for manufacturing the finest kind of chewing-tobacco,the so-called lady-twist.

The chewing-tobacco is made out of tobaccoleaves which the workman brings to a rotating conical needle that catches them and around which they are wound. The string of tobacco thus formed is then carried between two endless belts running over drums and crossing each other and between which it is rolled and spun. These belts cross each other at an angle which can be varied by a special arrangement, so that the speed at which the string is brought forward and the tightness to which it is spun can be varied. The string of tobacco having passed the belts, it is brought into the coiler, where it is coiled, while it at the same time receives a further twisting. The coiler consists of a drum which turns simultaneously around its longitudinal axis and its transverse axis. The revolving speed of the drum can by a special arrangement be adjusted according to the speed at which the string is brought forward by the belts, the belt which transmits the rotation from the main shaft to the .coiler running upon conical sheaves; upon which it can be moved sidewise by means of a lifting-lever,

2. Fig. 5 is the .lower bearing-fork seen in side elevation, Fig. 6 the same seen in top elevation.

The two main parts of the machine are the twisting arrangement and the coiler. The twisting arrangement consists of two pair of drums ct ct and b b, which are connected in couples by means of belts o andd. The drums are mounted in couples above each other, so that there is a small space of about one millimeter between the upper part of the belt 0 and the lower part of the belt (1. The belts pass each other at an angle which can be varied by means of a special-arrangement. The motive power is transmitted to the drums from the mainshaft 6 bymean's of conical cog-wheels f f, the perpendicular shaft g, (see Fig. 1,) upon whichthe cog-wheel h (see Fig. 4) is mounted below the working table 2'.

,This cog-wheel gears with two smaller cogwheels is Z, mounted upon perpendicular shafts mn. These latter have above screws without ends (worms) which gear with wormwheels q and r, fastened upon the one drum of each drum-couple. The drum-couples are suspended in fork-bearings .9, (see Fig. 5,)

the lowermost of these being turnable around a pin '10 in the table-slab 71, while the other one is suspended in a trestle to. (See Fig. 1.)

In order to be able to vary the angle between the belts e and at when it is desired,

owing to the different thickness of the tobacco-leaves, to vary the speed at which the string of tobacco is brought forward and the tightness with which it is wound, the perpendicular shafts m and n are connected with a rack 3 by means of drawing-rods 1 2. (See Figs. 2, 3, 4.) Gearing with this rack is a segment 4, turnable around an axle 5 and firmly connected with a two-armed lever 6, whose arms in their turn are, by means of drawingrods 7 8, connected with pedals 9 10, so that the workman can adjust the machine with his feet. The shafts m and n have bearings partly in the drawing-rods 1 2 and partly in eyes 21 (see Figs. 5 and 6) in the bearingforks 3. They pass through curved cuttings in the table-slab, whose lengths corresaid plates to vary the inclination of the bands, bands and friction means for driving said means for feeding tobacco between the bands winding means, substantially as described. to on one side and coiling .or winding means on In witness whereof I have hereunto set my the other, substantially as described. hand in presence of two witnesses.

6. In combination, an initial twisting-nee- WILLIAM SCHERTIGER. die, a pair of endless bands arranged at an Witnesses: inclination to each other with means for op- A. OOUTSERY,

crating them, a winding-drum in rear of said MYLIUS. 

